There are a great many things that you can do for your health and welfare. Lifestyle habits that optimize your wellbeing. Opinions on the matter are plentiful and people don’t always agree. Nonetheless, I’m going to offer to you my top picks of lifestyle habits for optimal wellness.

1. Shadow work, most especially integration-oriented shadow work so as to bring about internal harmony, alignment and cohesion. Shadow work is any practice, process or technique which helps you to become conscious of what you are not conscious of. It is deep self-awareness and self-intimacy work. Most people walk around making a mess out of their lives and wellbeing because they are ruled by what is subconscious. The truth below their conscious awareness is that they are split and conflicted, in a state of internal conflict. This makes being in-alignment with themselves impossible, so they can’t make the right decision or take an aligned action. Making shadow work part of your daily life, changes this completely, so that you are in a state of internal alignment, making decisions and taking actions according to your authentic truth and living life consciously. To learn more about this, you can watch two of my videos titled: What is Shadow Work and What are the Benefits of Shadow Work?  
2. Be very particular about what you do and don’t put into your body. This means things like the food you eat, the content you ingest into your mind and the products you put on your body. Right now, you live in a world where so many of the things that are out there to consume, are not conducive to human health, nor are they designed for human health. It is critical to be aware of what message you are sending to yourself and also to the rest of the world by consuming whatever it is that you consume. As well as what impact these things have on you. Be aware that just because you may not be as sensitive as others, and therefore may not recognize an immediate effect of certain things, does not mean they aren’t having an effect. A good go to rule of thumb is, the more natural something is, the better. 
   To give you a taste of what I mean, this means staying away as much as possible from things like refined sugars, chemicals and pesticides, plastics, horror films, violent video games, alcohol, processed foods, damaging noises, radiation, saturated fats, mold, refined grain flours, meat and dairy, preservatives, sulfates, electric currents, foods that are grown in sub-optimal conditions and the list goes on and on. Remember that the physical makeup of something is just a small fraction of a thing. There are many un-seen energetic elements and influences inherent within all things. For example, when a cook makes food in a horrible mood, that alone can cancel out the health benefits of even the healthiest food. Consciously and intentionally attune to the things in your environment and how supportive vs. unsupportive they are. Are they really FOR you and your body and being, or not? If not, don’t consume them.
3. Make sleep a priority. There are some people throughout history who have managed to be able to consciously take in prana and this changes the amount of sleep they need. But this should not become a goal for people, as if it were a mark of how evolved a person is. Some of the most conscious beings in existence sleep very little and some, sleep so much, it would shock you. To generalize, for people, wellbeing depends on sleep and on getting enough if it. Between 7 to 9 hours of it. There are so many functions that sleep serves, from body restoration to memory consolidation to immune system function and so much more. It isn’t just about energy. And making sleep a priority, means having good nighttime habits, like a wind-down routine to downregulate your nervous system, not ingesting caffeine after 2 pm. Body care. Not looking at screens that blast your brain with light right before bed.  
4. Be proactive, not passive, about health and wellness measures according to your needs; and do so directly. Many people are very passive about their wellness needs. Really own your wellbeing and be active about it. Doing so could look like taking baths in Epsom salts, getting massages, sitting in stillness, seeing a therapist, researching solutions and alternative cures, going on a hike, taking a specific supplement, spending time with a friend, working out at the gym, breathwork, cold showers, dressing in a way that makes you feel good about yourself, the sauna, listening to birdsongs or specific frequencies, no screen time, reading or writing, a retreat, drinking enough water, finding the right bedding for yourself, writing in a gratitude journal, going to sleep by a certain time, cleanses, acupuncture treatments, yoga, cuddling, doing art etc. When a need arises, meet that need directly. By doing so, you are being an advocate to yourself in a very up-front way.        
5. Be attuned to the way you feel and caretake your emotions. When it comes to emotions, we do things like ignore, suppress, deny, reject, fix, turn against, try to control, minimize, distract ourselves from, disguise, dissociate from, numb out and violently act out emotions. There are so many different ways that we do these things and there are so many different ways that this harms us and the people, places and things around us. For this not to happen, we have to let emotions fully pass through our being when they occur, without resisting them. And when we go through something that stirs up strong negative emotion, we need to place our attention on it so as to give it our full presence. We need to fully experience it. We need to let it pass fully through our body and energy field. And we need to learn the information contained in it. Doing so, will increase our capacity to feel as well as our capacity to process emotions. It’s like building an emotional muscle. And this, in turn will make it so we feel we can deal with anything life throws our way, rather than spending every day in panic because down deep, we feel we can’t handle painful things happening, because we can’t handle the emotions that those things will cause us to feel.
   People fear that when you focus on an emotion, it will simply amplify. It won’t ever go away and it may even kill them. This represents a huge amount of disempowerment that people feel relative to their own emotions. And this is not true at all when it comes to emotions. First of all, emotions are fluid, they move through you if you let them. On top of this, your truth and therefore your emotions don’t just disappear by focusing on something else. The picture of what causes emotions is more complicated than just what you are focused on in the moment. And most people use these tools designed to avoid negative emotion as a tool of resistance to their emotions. So, their emotions get stuck in the being. Their emotions get sequestered into the subconscious. They start to see their own emotions as the enemy. Your emotions are not against you. They are powerfully for you. Emotions are feedback about what is happening in any given circumstance. When you pay attention to your emotions, you are listening and responding to this feedback. It’s like listening to radar on a submarine. 
   When we have an emotion occur within us, most of us either immediately suppress, ignore and deny the emotion. Or, we jump right to trying to problem solve it away as fast as possible. In fact, our resistance to emotion is why we rush to get triggers to go away, rather than to use them to assist us in our intention to heal. To learn more about this, you can watch my video titled: The Emotional Wakeup Call. Attunement to our emotion is attunement to the core of our personal truth and experience. It is connection with our “heart”. 
6. Prioritize movement. Your body was made to move every day. You cannot be in a state of optimal health without exercise. Just like sleep, there are so many functions that movement and exercise serves. From strengthening the body to reducing stress to combating negative health conditions to helping you to be embodied to the improvement of mood to boosting energy levels to nutrient and oxygen delivery to improving sleep quality to improving your sexual health to fun and the list goes on and on. Choose a form of exercise that you personally enjoy and thus, feel intrinsically motivated to do. 
7. Meditation. Meditation is to deliberately engage in a mental exercise. It is a deliberate shift in focus and awareness. As such, there are many different purposes for meditation and there are also many different types of meditation. Choose the type of meditation that is designed to best serve the purpose that would serve you best at a given time. That may be guided meditation at one time and focused attention meditation at another time and present moment meditation at another time and so on and so forth. There are MANY types of mediation. What all of them have in common is that mediation is an absolutely priceless tool for wellbeing.
8. Spend time every day with other people in person communicating, doing quality time activities and making memories together. We are a relationally dependent species. For a person to be in a state of health, they must be with other people often. It is all too easy in the business of the modern world and with the invention of the internet and social media to forfeit in-person relationships and this, should not be done. Make it a point to spend time with people in person and initiate in-person interactions.     
9. Take great care with your environment. Home, yard, office, car etc. The spaces you occupy have a serious effect on your wellbeing. Keep your environment clean, organized and clutter free. Create a pleasing, aesthetic environment for your senses. The decorations, items and colors you use, matter. Each one has an effect on your being. This means, be deliberate about what effect you choose and therefore what does and does not belong in your space.
10. Spend time outside, and in nature. Preferably in interaction with plants, animals, insects, minerals and elements. Walk barefoot on the earth when you can. This is stabilizing, grounding, balancing and clearing. The frequency of natural spaces is essential for your wellbeing.      
11. Live according to your values. Prioritize according to your values. Live very consciously according to what is most important to you. By doing this, you are living according to intrinsic motivation. Do what matters to you with your time on earth. This is the recipe for a fulfilling life. And don’t do things you do not value or dislike as a “so that”. To learn more about this, you can watch my videos titled: The Secret to a Happy Life and If You Want to Be Happy, Don’t Do This.      
12. Learn. Never stop learning. Seek out new things to learn. Learning is a key component to personal expansion and this will literally keep you young and maintain the plasticity of your being. Learning gives you new information and skills, which you can optimize your life with. It boosts self-confidence and boosts happiness levels. And most importantly, learning prevents decline. 

It is my sincere promise that adding these lifestyle habits to your daily life will improve your life immensely.